The bookshop book
By: Jen Campbell
Contributors: Samuels Lasner, Mark, 1952- donor
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781472116666
Subjects: Bookstores
Description: We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books: we're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that's invented the world's first antiquarian book vending machine. Campbell examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: A brief history: the world of books; title: Bookshops around the world & thoughts from those who love them. Europe ; Africa ; North America ; Central and South America ; Australasia ; Asia.